Posted on 02/06/2006 6:50:28 AM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
This is the space where I get to crow about the frightening precision of my Super Bowl prediction.
Where I get to remind everyone that I guaranteed the Steelers would win the title after they beat the Colts. That they were the only championship-caliber team among the final four. That they would dismantle the Broncos in Denver and waylay whomever the NFC sent at them.
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I've never felt so empty being right. I feel dirty. I wish I'd been wrong. The Steelers did not deserve to win this game. They were not the better team. O'Connor was right. Seattle was the better team.
So, Paul Tagliabue, how does a team lose when it outgains an opponent by 57 yards, controls time of possession and wins the turnover battle?
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Every single questionable, marginal or outright bad call went against the Seahawks....
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The difference was also Seattle's horrible clock management. Can't blame that one on the refs.
5-17 on third down.
Dropped passes.
2 missed FGs.
Horrendous clock management.
Whining about the officiating rather than playing the game.
The tip of the ball broke the plane, TD.
Absolutely disagree, Football, like any other game is a game of momentum and points...the refs controlled both to the disadvantage of the Seahawks. The Steelers would have found themselves in a world of hurt had the refs not interferred, revised game plan or not.
It was so blatant that a convincing agruement can be made in this case that the refs caused the outcome of the game.
The luckiest person has to be Seattle's kicker. Lost in the fog of the officiating is the fact that he missed two crucial FGs, that could have made the difference. Yet nobody is harping on this.
Oh, I don't know. You can always count on bad officiating in a Notre Dame football game, where the refs will bend over backwards to help the Irish.
Bull. There was a Seattle turnover that didn't happen (catch and fumble) because the official wrongly blew it dead as an incomplete pass -- not subject to review. None of the Seahawks mourners want to address that bad call, they only care about the calls that hurt them -- evewn the good ones.
Game's over, people. Steelers won. Get over it.
Good point.
While the officiating was terrible, Seattle worked just as hard as the refs to make sure they lost the game. Clock management, "stone fingers" Stevens, sideline routes that stayed in bounds ... you name it. Not a pretty win for the Steelers, but a win ninetheless.
We should all - Steeler fans too - get on this bad officiating. It has to stop.
Never mind the calls that gave and took away touchdowns - when you ignore the venerable "the ground can't cause a fumble" and throw a flag anyway and then (I admit this is when I turned the game off) aren't with it enough to pick up your flag but have to be reversed - when I read it was reversed I assumed by the booth, you shouldn't be officiating HS football let alone the SB.
Negating one Hawk TD (which would have made it 10-0 and changed the complexion of the game), then killed another catch inside the 2 yard line that might have resulted in yet another TD with a bogus holding call.
That's the same thing as putting more stock in exit polls than the actual ballots cast.
Must be just another crybaby Seahawks fan. Sure are a lot of them these days.
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Hmmmm, Bettis did go to Notre Dame.
Seattle should have been ahead about 14-0 in the first half because the Steelers didn't even show up until after half time.
Just because Michael "cokehead" Irvin did it way back when, doesn't mean it's legal in the present form of the NFL.
Sure...the tip of the ball broke the plane in quantum space...didnt look like it to me.
In fact it only looked like he might have broke the plain after he was down and the ball had hit the ground.
This had to be the worst superbowl on record. The steelers looked bad, and the Seahawks didnt look much better.
He put the football into the end zone...only after he was on the ground for a while.
"The ball ever so briefly crossed the plane."
The NFL's Competition Committee needs to change this rule of the ball breaking the plane constitutes a TD. Bring back the days when the football had to physically end up in the endzone. This would enable the defense to use the sidelines for what it was intended...as the 12th defensive player. Instant replays seem to revolve around whether the ball had broken the plane.
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